Faience bowl, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot

Late Bronze Age III

Faience bowl

The figure of the woman in the interior of the cup is depicted in an Egyptian style. H. 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) diameter 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

Date

1250 - 1150 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5074

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CVIII, 4, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1574, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Foster, Karen Polinger. 1979. Aegean Faience of the Bronze Age. p. 50, n. 316, New Haven: Yale University Press.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 99, p. 63, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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